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4 years agoMigrating from local vaults to 1Password 8?
Hi all,
Currently a 1Password 7 user that uses purely local vaults, and I'm looking to migrate to 1Password 8. But some complications are involved...
My personal credentials/secrets I'd like ...
4 years ago
@Peter_Wang These are great questions! I'm happy to assist.
1Password 8 is based on the architecture of our 1Password.com service, which means that it does not have the kind of standalone local vaults that license customers have historically used. However:
That doesn't mean that all the data is "in the cloud" (and thus at the mercy of a potentially dodgy internet connection). While our servers do maintain an encrypted copy of a given user's database, each device where you use 1Password also has a local 1Password database on it. That means that you can be out on a boat in the middle of the ocean, open your cell phone, and successfully unlock your 1Password app even though you don't have cell phone signal.
Having a local database on each device also provides redundancy as well. For example, if you use 1Password on a laptop and a cell phone, you have 3 copies of your data available: the one on the phone, the one on the laptop, and one in our servers. Keeping all this in sync without making extra work for you is part of what the 1Password.com system does.
In terms of outages, there is also redundancy within our servers as well, although again the fact that you can open your data directly from the database on your device is of primary importance.
And for anyone who's curious, we actually have a site where you can check out our uptime and where scheduled infrastructure maintenance that might impact availability is announced. Currently we have a 100.0% uptime average. 😎
https://1password.statuspage.io/
I hope this provides some helpful context about how 1Password 8 (and 1Password.com) work. We understand that being able to access your data is important. 👍